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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man says, "You, too, are by brother" (12)?
(a) He yells the same phrase back at the man.
(b) He tells his aide to arrest him.
(c) He waves to the man.
(d) He ignores the man and says nothing.

2. What does the Minister tell the Marlboro Man will happen to him once they reach the airport?
(a) He will be arrested.
(b) Ari will bring him back to the church.
(c) He will be taken to Paris.
(d) He will be executed.

3. What does the man tell the Minister is disappointing after the Minister says he knows the man will kill them?
(a) That the Minister relies on Ari to help him.
(b) That the Minister is running away.
(c) That the Minister does not recognize the man.
(d) That the Minister was not prepared for the storm.

4. What does the Minister realize as a group of aids guide him down the tarmac?
(a) He did not say goodbye to Ari.
(b) He does not want to see his wife.
(c) He set the Marlboro Man free.
(d) He forgot his suitcase.

5. What author does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister reading in their youth?
(a) Salinger.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) Vonnegut.
(d) Hemingway.

6. What begins to happen just as the Minister reaches his plane at the end of the story?
(a) The airport floods.
(b) It starts to snow.
(c) It starts to rain.
(d) The plane begin to take off before the Minister gets on it.

7. Who is screaming the Minister's name as he walks down the tarmac with his aides at the end of the story?
(a) The Marlboro Man.
(b) Ari.
(c) His wife.
(d) The crowd.

8. How long ago does the Marlboro Man say he was given that nickname?
(a) 40 years ago.
(b) 20 years ago.
(c) 10 years ago.
(d) 3 years ago.

9. What does the man tell Ari he gave up long ago?
(a) Killing.
(b) Driving.
(c) Women.
(d) Drinking.

10. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?
(a) To a hotel.
(b) To the airport.
(c) To church.
(d) To a cafe.

11. What weapon does the man who said he was Red Cross use to frighten Ari?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A club.
(c) A gun.
(d) A knife.

12. What does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister doing "to young thugs who could not even spell their own names" (10)?
(a) Beating them up.
(b) Giving them guns.
(c) Tutoring them.
(d) Finding them jobs.

13. What does the Minister say to the man after he has pulled him into the car with Ari?
(a) He introduces him to Ari.
(b) He thanks him for his help.
(c) He tells him he made a grave error.
(d) He tells him he looks familiar.

14. What does the Minister say to the Marlboro Man when he tries to say the two are similar?
(a) He tells him he is insane.
(b) He agrees with him.
(c) The Minister says that the Man is far more noble than he is.
(d) The Minister says that he should have been arrested with the man.

15. How are Ari and the man described as the Minister thinks of being stuck in the car with them "on the way to his own execution" (7)?
(a) A pragmatist and a rebel.
(b) A lunatic and a coward.
(c) An intellect and a thug.
(d) A devotee and a sinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the Marlboro Man been in prison before he is able to escape?

2. What is the only thing the Prime Minister reads in the present?

3. What does the man tell the Minister is different about both of them from their younger days?

4. What does Ari do as he drives the Minister and the man who got into the car with them?

5. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?

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